Question

Poets and writers of late 18th century (i) _________ that the vitality of the rhyming couplet was lost. They thought that the versification of Dryden and Pope (ii) _________. This thought brought back the use of blank verse, the verse used by Shakespeare and Milton in the realm of English poetry. The idea of imitation that (iii) ________ in the age of Dryden and Pope also got a back seat. (i) (a) has started to think (b) started to think (c) starts thinking (d) had started to think (ii) (a) weren’t improved with (b) can’t improve upon (c) may be improved upon (d) couldn’t be improved upon (iii) (a) is kind of prevalent (b) might be kind of prevalent (c) was kind of prevalent (​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 rabindhra nath tagore

Answer 2

The correct answers for the blanks: started to think; couldn’t be improved upon; was kind of prevalent- respectively.

Explanation:

• We have to fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verbs and tense given in the options.
• Poets and writers of late 18th century started to think that the vitality of the rhyming couplet was lost.
• They thought that the versification of Dryden and Pope couldn’t be improved upon.
• This thought brought back the use of blank verse, the verse used by Shakespeare and Milton in the realm of English poetry. The idea of imitation that was kind of prevalent.
• In the paragraph, they talk about the past century. Therefore everything must be in simple past.